January-March, 2007

Features

FORWARD THINKERS
A biologist in Hollywood, an insect tracker, a pair of ecological architects, and the new leader of the world’s largest conservation network. Here are a few people worth watching in 2007.
by Charles Alexander, Frances Cairncross, Eric Sorensen, and John Nielsen

VIRGINITY LOST
Pristine forests of the Amazon were not encountered in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; they were invented in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
by Fred Pearce

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
Climate change will shuffle the deck of plants, animals, and ecosystems in ways we’ve only begun to imagine.
by Douglas Fox